1 Kings 13:16

But the man replied, “I cannot go home with you, and I will not eat bread or drink water with you in this place.

Majority Standard Bible

In The King James Version

And he said, I may not return with thee, nor go in with thee: neither will I eat bread nor drink water with thee in this place:

In Context

15So the prophet said to the man of God, “Come home with me and eat some bread.”

17For I have been told by the word of the LORD: ‘You must not eat bread or drink water there or return by the way you came.’”

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Cross References

Numbers 22:13So Balaam got up the next morning and said to Balak’s princes, “Go back to your homeland, because the LORD has refused to let me go with you.”

1 Kings 13:8But the man of God replied, “If you were to give me half your possessions, I still would not go with you, nor would I eat bread or drink water in this place.

Matthew 16:23But Jesus turned and said to Peter, “Get behind Me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to Me. For you do not have in mind the things of God, but the things of men.”

Matthew Henry on 1 Kings 13:12-23

The Prophet Deceived. ( b. c. 974.) 11 Now there dwelt an old prophet in Beth-el; and his sons came and told him all the works that the man of God had done that day in Beth-el: the words which he had spoken unto the king, them they told also to their father. 12 And their father said unto them, What way went he? For his sons had seen what way the man of God went, which came from Judah. 13 And he said unto his sons, Saddle me the ass. So they saddled him the ass: and he rode thereon, 14 And went after the man of… Read the whole commentary →

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